基于脉冲对的交叉相位调制脉冲压缩中离散效应的抑制

提出一种新的抑制离散效应的方法——非对称脉冲对法，并对采用该方法和采用非同步耦合法在基于脉冲对交叉相位调制对脉冲进行压缩过程中，对离散效应影响的抑制效果进行了研究.数值模拟的结果显示：对于峰值功率为10mW、半极大全宽度为5ps的高斯入射脉冲，采用非对称脉冲对法，可以获得压缩比为137、基座能量比为0122、峰值功率为116mW的压缩脉冲. 关键词： 交叉相位调制 离散效应 非同步耦合法 非对称脉冲对法     

A study of pulse shape in electromagnetically induced transparency based slow light

Slow light of four different pulses are demonstrated and analyzed in cesium vapor based on electromagnetically induced transparency. Each pulse, generated with an identical temporal width, experiences very different slow light effects due to its temporal and spectral distributions simultaneously. Aiming at the applications such as timing, instead of communication, we obtained two optimized ones among the four different shaped pulses. Firstly, the single-exponential pulse is more appropriate to maximize the time delay than other three pulses; secondly, the cosine pulse shows advantage to minimize the distortion (broadening) of the slowed pulse. Finally, using optical filter model, we present a convenient simulation method in theory; moreover, the theoretical results show excellent agreement with experiments.     

Analytical expression of pulse broadening in an arbitrary linear slow light medium

We derive an analytical expression for the broadening of a Gaussian input pulse in an arbitrary linear slow light medium. The expression consists of two terms, one corresponding to amplitude broadening (low-pass filtering of the pulse bandwidth) and another corresponding to phase broadening (phase dispersion around the resonance). It is shown that for a Lorentzian gain profile, the amplitude broadening is dominant at small fractional delays. However, for large fractional delays, phase broadening is inevitably dominate.     

Improvement of Raman amplifier bandwidth by means of slow light in photonic crystal based waveguide structure

In this paper, we investigate the enhancement of Raman amplification bandwidth with self phase modulation (SPM) effect in silicon based photonic crystal waveguides. The Maxwell equations are solved using finite difference time domain method considering two photon absorption, free carrier absorption, Kerr and SPM effects. We also study the effects of shape, width and average power on the Raman amplification bandwidth. Then by changing the photonic crystal geometrical parameters, pump and signal group velocity are reduced to achieve higher Raman bandwidth.     

Anisotropic light diffraction in crystals with a large acoustic-energy walk-off

The influence of energy walk-off in an acoustic beam on the characteristic of anisotropic Bragg diffraction of light has been investigated by the example of paratellurite crystal. The angular and frequency characteristics of acousto-optic diffraction have been calculated in wide ranges of ultrasound frequencies and Bragg angles using the modified Raman-Nath equations. It is shown that the walk-off of an acoustic beam may change (either widen or narrow) significantly the frequency and angular ranges. The calculation results have been experimentally checked on an acousto-optic cell made of 10.5°-cut paratellurite crystal.     

The scattering of slow atoms by light

A kinetic equation has been obtained describing the motion of atoms in a resonant field of standing light wave. This equation is used to describe the scattering of atoms for conditions close to experimental ones [1]. It is shown that the dependence of atomic scattering has a dip at the resonance frequency of the field.     

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering of slow light in a hollow planar periodically corrugated waveguide

Enhancement of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) by molecular nitrogen in a hollow planar periodically corrugated waveguide is experimentally detected. The measured dependence of CARS efficiency on the thickness of the waveguide layer indicates that CARS enhancement under these conditions is at least partially due to the decrease in the group velocity of pump pulses around the photonic band gap.     

矩形谱宽带光抽运的布里渊慢光中脉冲失真的分析

在小信号增益条件下推导出了高斯光脉冲经过矩形谱宽带光抽运的布里渊慢光系统后输出脉冲时域振幅包络的近似解析表达式,适用于抽运光频谱具有陡峭上升(下降)沿和平坦顶部的情况.定量分析和比较了光纤色散以及受激布里渊散射增益不均衡和增益所致色散效应对延迟信号光脉冲失真的影响.计算结果表明:当信号光脉冲的频谱处于布里渊有效增益谱内时,解析解与数值解符合,布里渊增益所致三阶色散效应是导致延迟信号光脉冲失真的主要物理因素,制约了窄脉冲延迟量的提高.     

Raman scattering of light by 2LO-phonons

A theory of resonance Raman scattering of light by 2LO-phonons in semiconductor crystals is presented. Wannier excitons are considered as intermediate states. Analytic expressions are obtained that take into account contributions from different chains of intermediate states. The scattering cross section is shown to be weakly dependent on the wave vector imparted to the phonon system. The theoretical model permits the calculation of the scattering cross section for the energy of the exciting radiation photon below the level of exciton resonances.     

Sub-nanosecond strong pulse generated by backward Raman scattering

Hundreds picosecond strong short-wavelength pulses have been generate by a backward Raman oscillator amplifier pumped with a 10-J KrF laser from Heaven-1 MOPA system. Not only high power but also high energy laser pulses have been obtained with an energy conversion efficiency up to 17%. 640-picosecond pulse duration was observed in our experiments by a 1.5-GHz-bandwidth oscilloscope corresponding to 34 times of pulse compression rate.     

Plasma heating by an ultrashort light pulse

Nonstationary absorption of the energy of a short electromagnetic-radiation pulse in a superdense semibounded plasma is considered. An approach is proposed for finding the electron distribution function, wherein the region of the skin layer (in the anomalous skin-effect regime) is described as a boundary condition for the distribution function over the entire plasma volume. A self-similar electron-distribution function is obtained and is used to analyze the dynamics of the electromagnetic-field absorption, of the heat transfer, and of the bremsstrahlung of the heated plasma.Quantum Radiophysics Division, Lebedev Physics Institute. Translated from Preprint No. 22 of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1990.     

Raman scattering of light by the electroactivated water

Raman spectra of the electroactivated water and its chemical analogs are studied. The substantial differences are found in the 700–2700-cm^?1 region, which are assumed to be related to the presence of a charged hydrogen bond in associates involving excessive H⁺ and OH^? ions.     

Cancellation of light shifts in an N-resonance clock

We demonstrate that first-order light shifts can be canceled for an all-optical, three-photon-absorption resonance (N-resonance) on the D1 transition of 87Rb. This light-shift cancellation facilitates improved frequency stability for an N-resonance clock. For example, by using a tabletop apparatus designed for N-resonance spectroscopy, we measured a short-term fractional frequency stability (Allan deviation) of approximately/= 1.5 x 10(-11) tao1/2 for observation times of 1 s < or = tao < or = 50 s. Further improvements in frequency stability should be possible with an apparatus designed as a dedicated N-resonance clock.     

荧光褪色效应与拉曼光谱基线干扰消除

荧光是直接测定的拉曼光谱中背景的最主要来源,需要采用真实、准确的方法消除,以得到纯净的拉曼响应。基线拟合消除和查找荧光贡献扣除是解决背景问题的两条思路,目前多采用基线拟合方法,其优点是满足用户“视觉”要求,无需额外硬件,但并非机理或实质上的解释,因而难以保证数据的真实性与合理性;查找荧光的方法,更为真实,但是目前提出的方法,需要增加光源等额外设计和成本。另外,在实验方法上,也有采用消荧光剂和长时间照射漂白的,存在操作繁琐、效率低等不足。利用稳定体系中拉曼和荧光的时间差异解决体系中荧光问题。在微小的时间段内,例如几个毫秒,激发光不会导致体系性质发生显著变化,荧光具有寿命周期,会随激发时间延长强度下降的“褪色”,“褪色”的强度差异可以被认为是整体荧光的一个微元;与此同时,由于体系组成未发生显著变化,拉曼光对于短时间照射可以保持稳定。利用此差异可以区分出混合信号中的荧光和拉曼光。根据该原理,提出了荧光褪色差分法(FBDA),实现拉曼光谱的背景校正。方法的主要步骤：测量微小时刻内的多张直接拉曼光谱,求取系列光谱的差分,对差分值作高频滤波降噪,可获得荧光强度微元;然后,多个荧光微元平均归一化后,得到荧光强度单元。以拉曼光谱2 000～2 500 cm-1的静默区,即通常不会出现拉曼信号的频段为基准,对荧光单元作逆差分,逆差分累计值与原始光谱在此频段一致时,得到整体荧光响应;最终,从原始光谱中扣除荧光成分,完成背景扣除和基线校正。以盐酸二甲双胍片的拉曼测量为例,说明和讲解了所提出的原理和方法,验证方法的有效性。与目前效果较好的基线校正方法(不对称最小二乘和自适应迭代再加权惩罚偏最小二乘)进行了对比,表明FBDA方法更为客观真实,FBDA的另一个优势是不需要额外的设计和成本,所有数据都是在现有设备直接采集和完成。需要说明的是,微小时刻光谱差异的要求,可以确保FBDA光谱实时性,长时间的光谱差异,将会影响结果的准确性;另外,对于光化学反应体系和其他非荧光引起的复杂背景,FBDA的适用性有待改善。     

Cancellation of Raman self-frequency shift for compression of optical pulses

We study to which extent a fiber soliton can be manipulated by a specially chosen continuous pump wave. A group velocity matched pump scatters at the soliton, which is compressed due to the energy/momentum transfer. As the pump scattering is very sensitive to the velocity matching condition, soliton compression is quickly destroyed by the soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS). This is especially true for ultrashort pulses: SSFS inevitably impairs the degree of compression. We demonstrate numerically that soliton enhancement can be restored to some extent and the compressed soliton can be stabilized, provided that SSFS is canceled by a second pump wave. Still the available compression degree is considerably smaller than that in the Raman-free nonlinear fibers.     

Pondermotive forces with slow light

This work describes atomic processes which result from the greatly enhanced longitudinal gradient force which is inherent to the propagation of slow light. These processes are (1) ballistic atom motion and atom surfing, and (2) a type of local pondermotive nonlinearity or scattering which results from free-particle sinusoidal motion and the density variation caused by this motion.     

Uniform silicon slow light waveguide

An uniform silicon waveguide is proposed featuring ultralow-dispersion slow light. The core of the waveguide consists of one silicon trip and two pairs of air/silicon strip and the cladding is composed of several alternative silicon and air strips, which form a transverse band gap to confine propagating light in the core. The waveguide has several nearly linear photonic bands in a large frequency range, which can support broadband slow modes with a group velocity of 0.03–0.08c and tolerable group velocity dispersion.     

Two-photon and two-photon-assisted slow light

We show that light pulses propagating in two-photon absorbing systems may present time delays like slow light produced via coherent population oscillations in one-photon interactions. Two regimes are numerically studied for a simplified two-level system: (a) a light pulse at frequency ω/2 undergoes two-photon absorption (TPA) and is delayed by the absorbing system (two-photon slow light) and (b) a light pulse at frequency ω is delayed in a system prepared by TPA of a light pulse at frequency ω/2 (two-photon-assisted slow light). The study carried out in solutions of dyes and dendrites shows significant delays, low distortion, and good transmission for easily reachable experimental conditions. The working principle can be applied to other media and can be used in telecommunications technology.     

高灵敏度色散型慢光干涉仪的仿真研究

设计了一种基于慢光介质色散特性的新型干涉装置,研究其物理过程,证明利用慢光介质可以有效提高干涉仪的光谱灵敏度,并且光谱灵敏度与慢光介质的群折射率成正比。同时,进一步具体分析慢光介质GaAs的色散特性,给出研究色散型慢光干涉仪的一般性方法,并证明使用慢光介质GaAs在近红外区域可以提高光谱灵敏度2倍左右。